Garment leg ironer



5, 1933. J. H. LEEF Er Al.

GARMENT LEG IRONER Filed April 13, 1932 Patented Dec. 5, 1933 Gent/:ENT LEGJRONER John Leef and'George HlLeef, Minn.y l

Minneapolis,

Application April 13, lesa. lserial No. 604,9081 l.2 claims. '(oi. 22e-i7) Qur invention provides an extremely simple and highly efiicientdevice herein designated asV ya garment leg ironer, especially adapted for use lin laundries but useful elsewhere for ironing,

cially workmens overalls.

Workmens overalls and likel legged working garments or trousers, after washing, require somel form of pressing, but do not require creasingr or pressing with the same care or of the same character as that required for dress trousers, and in fact, that kind of pressing will be too expensive. Our improved device makes it possible to take overalls, for example, as they come from the centrifugal drier Vwhile quite wet, force the legs over the device, and by a very rapid operation, smooth out and press into good form more or less creased and at the same time the drying `thereof will be completed;

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

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Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2--2 oi Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3 3 oi Fig. 2.

The device comprises a pair of hollow or chambered and elongated shells, herein designated as boots, mounted on a suitable base of support so that one thereof will move toward and-from the other and automatically adapt themselves to the form of the garment leg inserted over the same. Preferably, one of said boots is xed and the other relatively movable; The fixed boot 4 is secured to and rests from the supporting base or frame 5. The movable boot 6 is connected to the iixed boot 4 by a wide link 7 hinged at -its lower end to the iixed boot at 8, and to the.

Preferably, the boot 4 is movable boot at 9. formed at its inner face with a recess 10 into which the link '7 will fold. This link.7 and the hinges 8 and 9 are wide enough to keep the two` ends and the outer edge of the boot 6 is movedso that the two boots will adjust themselves not only to different widths, but to slightly different forms of trousers of slightly different type boots are recessed so that the toggle may be folded flatwise together and the upper ends of Fig. l is a` plan view of the improved de-r 16 that extends through the bottom of the movf able boot 6 and upward into the same. The nu-l `proximatelygat steam temperature, to wit: ap-A in the Ylegs of lthe garment.v Also'fin -cross sec.` Y

tion, the boots are approximately triangular and, come to quite sharp edges at their outer faces, las best shown in Fig.. 3. In view of this form, the garments will be creased to considerable extent at front and rear.r Preferably, a spring such-as a sear spring 11 is interposed between the' link 7 and the boot 4 and exerts a pressure tendingtoV move the boot 6 away from said boot 4. AAs, a

desirable but not essential feature, the upper ends of the two boots are connected by a hingelike toggle link 12 that limits the separation thereof but permits the two boots tobe moved to-v gether. Also as shown, the upper ends of the the twov boots be brought together. Here it will be notedthat the inner face of the movable boot 6 diverges slighly from its hinge 5 while the inner faceof the fixed boot 4 is straight- 75 This willv permit a slight rocking movement of the boot 6 even when the two boots are brought into contact. v

l The boots will be heated by a hot iiuid, preferably steam, Ywhich may be vsupplied through -a steam pipe 13 that is provided with a branch 14` that leads -upward into the interior of vthe fixed boot 4. The steam pipe 14 sconnected by a iiexible pipe'or hose 15 to steam discharge pipe,

meral 17 indicates va drain pipeV that is connected by "a, branchv drain pipe 18 that leads from the bottom of the lfixed boot 4 and is connected byna flexible pipe ,or hose 19 to a drain '90 nipple 20 depending `from the bottom of said boot 6. The pipeslB and 14 are shown as pro-Y vided respectively with valves 13a and 14a.

When steam is introduced into the boots, they will, of course, be made hotfand'will be kept approximately at 212 degrees F. For ironing ori forming and drying the'v trouser legs, the garmet is iirst turned upside down anda leg .is

pulled down overxthe two boots until the end of the leg is-'approximately 4even with the upper ends of the boots'. The boot 6 will be pressed away from the boot 4 both by the action of the spring 11 and by gravity which acts on the boot' 6 through the oblique link '7. It will be noted that the pivot y9 is always offset from the right from .thepivot Seven when the two boots are pressed together andv hence they would tend to separate even if the spring 11 were not provided.v Thus the trouser leg smoothed out andstretched laterally" under suici'ent'pressure to keep it in form, Will be subjected to heat that will rapidly dry the same and at the same time press or iron the leg to good form. This device, thereforaV serves as a rapid-acting presser and drier and renders the operation of nicely forming the vgarment legs extremely simple and capable of being rapidly performed at very low cost. t

From the foregoingjit isevidentthat the device illustrated in the. drawing is capable of various` modifications within the :scope of the invention herein disclosed and claimed.

VWhat we claim is:

1. A device of the kind described comprising a= pair of upright (3o-operating boots, one of which is movable toward and from the' other, a link pivotally mounted at its lower end and having itsl upper end pivotally connected to the intermediate portion of said movable bootV whereby said movable boot is capable of rocking'movements Von the upper end of said link, the inner pivotal connection between said link and boot face of one of said boots having surfacesv that longitudinally. diverge froml the immediate Vicinity 'of the pivotal connection between said link and movable boot, whereby said movabler boot is 'capable of rocking action even when pressed against the co-operating boot.

2. vA device of the kind described comprising a base, an elongated'boot rigidly secured to said connecting the extreme ends of said boots.

JOI-IN H. LEEF.

GEORGE H. LEEF.

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